Jibe on suited-booted jijaji stumps Rahul

Soon after Gandhi ended his speech, the BJP fielded its MP from tribal-dominated Jhabua constituency in Madhya Pradesh, <g data-gr-id="67">Dilipsingh</g> Bhuria, who said, “You are talking of suit-boot. What about <g data-gr-id="68">jijaji</g> (brother-in-law)?” The caustic reference was to Rahul’s sister Priyanka Gandhi’s husband Robert Vadra, whose name cropped up in controversial land deals in Haryana when the Congress 

was in power.

“The BJP’s strategy to counter the Opposition over the Land Bill issue is clear, to alienate the Congress and the Left, and prop up their rustic and rural faces to combat Rahul Gandhi’s new found love for farmers,” said a source in BJP. 

Bhuria said that if Gandhi was so keen of farming, he was ready to get farmers in his arid constituency, offer some land and see him sweat out.

Bhuria’s jibes repeatedly had the Congress leaders on their feet defending Gandhi. <g data-gr-id="72">Even</g> leader of the party in the House, Mallikarjun Kharge waved ruled book asking the chair to restrain Bhuria, who spoke with aplomb.  

Before Bhuria’s rebuttal, Congress vice-president in Lok Sabha had viciously attacked the Modi government for pushing the Land Bill. “It took us two years to get the land bill and the NDA govt murdered the bill in a few days. Nobody (in the government) cares about the poor or the farmers.” He repeated his earlier slogan saying,” This government is anti-farmer, anti-poor. This is a ‘suit-boot ki sarkar.”

Warning the government of not going ahead with the proposed legislation, Rahul said: “We will take to the streets if you go ahead with the new bill. This ‘suit-boot ka <g data-gr-id="69">kaam</g>’ will not go on. I was told that robbers come in at midnight, silently jump through the window... but the biggest thieves come during the day... and they come wearing a suit.”